Linguistics Careercast

Live Linguistics Careercast coming your way on August 16! Join us for part two of our conversation on GenAI and linguistics, this time focusing on Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Ph.D.’s recent book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.” And we’ll follow the taping with a networking event in Gather! Host Laurel Sutton will be joined again by Alicia Beckford Wassink, Katie Swindler, and Aubrie Amstutz to continue the conversation from our live episode at LingFest25, which we released as a podcast on April 22, 2025. The 90 minute panel will take place in Zoom and will include a Q&A portion. After the panel, we’ll move to Gather for an hour of networking. We invite attendees to mix and mingle, and to have space to process the great conversation. PANEL DISCUSSION/LIVE PODCAST: 10:00 – 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) GATHER NETWORKING EVENT: 11:30AM – 12:30PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Tickets are $5 for LSA members, and $7 for the general public. Registration can be found on Linguistic Society of America (LSA)’s website: https://www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_day.asp?date=8/16/2025&eventid=106&mc_cid=d47d2d569b Big thanks to LSA for sponsoring this event! Haven’t read the book yet? Pick up a copy or stop by your local bookstore!The post Live Linguistics Careeercast August 16 2025 – The AI Con Discussion first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.

This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Content Creation – A Path to Alternative Careers”. The presenter is Erin Kuester, who has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University, and is a copywriter and content creator for women and queer-owned businesses. This workshop presents content creation and social media usage as skills, and how these skills can be leveraged as an alternative career or to boost an alternative career. This is especially useful for anyone who is interested in starting their own business, freelancing (whether full-time or part-time), or becoming a content creator in general. In it, you’ll learn about finding and understanding an audience, types of content, carving out a niche, platform-specific strategies, using content to market a business, monetization, and alternative careers. Erin Kuester on LinkedIn Erin Kuester’s website Erin Kuester on TikTok Erin’s “Vent” on TikTok Koreader’s TikTok Under a Tin Roof’s TikTok Deck used in this presentation TikToks in the video: Topics discussed include – alternative careers – content creation – branding – freelance – social media This episode of the podcast is generously sponsored by Amazon Science. The post Episode #74: Content Creation – A Path to Alternative Careers (LCL Audio) first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.

“If you understand why you’re making a career move, then don’t worry about explaining it” Tim Durgin (杜腾飞) is an ATA-certified Chinese-to-English linguist, translator, and analyst based in the Washington DC area. His primary focus is on written translation in several key domains, including video games, politics, national security, and contracts. Beyond his freelance endeavors, Tim has contributed to teams at NetEase, Amazon, Google, and R2Games. He holds a Master’s in East Asian Studies, and he is passionate about video games. Tim Durgin on LinkedIn Topics include: – LSPs – translation – localization – recruiters – networking – generative AI – LLM – LinkedInThe post Episode #72: Tim Durgin first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.

“I love the process of directing voice actors – and I never would have found out about it without the internet” Colette Feehan is an audiobook director with a PhD in linguistics who specializes in multi-language books, books with technical jargon, and multi-book series that require maintaining a strong pronunciation database. Colette’s doctoral research focused on the intersection of articulatory and acoustic phonetics and vocal performance specific to character voiceover – using ultrasound to look at how actors move the parts of their vocal tract around to make different voices. Colette Feehan on LinkedIn Colette Feehan’s website Colette Feehan on YouTube Colette Feehan on TikTok Natalie Naudus’s book Gay the Pray Away Rosina Lippi-Green’s book English with an Accent Topics include: – acoustic phonetics – voice over – audiobooks – voice acting – pertubation theory – pronunciation guides – accents – contract workThe post Episode #70: Colette Feehan first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.

“In tech, I feel like I’m giving a sociolinguistics 101 course once a month” This episode is a recording of a special live episode of the Linguistics Careercast podcast. Our panel of linguists discusses how artificial intelligence (especially Gen AI) is impacting linguistics as a field. We’ll cover topics like AI bias, challenges in training data curation, and implications of GenAI on online language data collection. These are conversations that linguists are having behind the scenes about the future of this changing technical landscape. The panel was held on April 12, 2025, during LingFest, a part of LingComm 2025 Panelists: Aubrie Amstutz, Responsible AI Research Scientist at Grid Dynamics Alicia Beckford Wassink, Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington Katie Swindler, Content Management for Generative AI at Mother Tongue AI Producer: Alex Johnston, MLC Director, Georgetown University Topics include – generative AI – large language models (LLM) – ethics – trust and safety – minoritized dialects – language bias – automatic speech recognition – discourse analysis – product policyThe post Episode #69: Live at LingFest 2025 first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.

This episode is titled “Jobs in Tech for Qualitative Researchers and Social Scientists”. Our moderator, Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, guides a discussion with panelists Lex Konnelly and Jyoti Iyer on how backgrounds in linguistics and social sciences can shape innovation and drive meaningful change in tech companies. In this session, you’ll learn how to utilize skills and expertise in analysis, critical thinking, and understanding human behavior to impact tech and technology. And there’s practical advice on breaking into these fields and advancing your career in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. The video of this presentation is available at the Linguistics Career Launch YouTube channel. Alfonso Sánchez-Moya on LinkedIn Lex Konnelly on LinkedIn Jyoti Iyer on LinkedIn This episode of the podcast is generously sponsored by Amazon Science. Topics discussed include – qualitative research – job search – networking – transferable skills – reframing – language context – language bias – career transition – job descriptions The post Episode #67: Jobs in Tech (LCL audio) first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.